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Julie Hesmondhalgh
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Julie was born in Accrington, Lancashire in February 1970. A woman with a strong social conscience, she originally wanted to be a social worker. She was an amateur actress with the Oswaldtwistle Players and studied A-level Theatre Studies at Accrington and Rossendale College. Fate took a turn when she took an audition for drama school to be with her friends. It landed her a place at LAMDA, where she studied from 1988-1991. After graduating she set up her own theatre company, Arts Threshold, with a group of friends in Paddington, taking time out for TV roles in The Bill, the Catherine Cookson drama The Dwelling Place, a care home worker in Victoria Wood's comedy film Pat and Margaret and, jus…
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Julie was born in Accrington, Lancashire in February 1970. A woman with a strong social conscience, she originally wanted to be a social worker. She was an amateur actress with the Oswaldtwistle Players and studied A-level Theatre Studies at Accrington and Rossendale College. Fate took a turn when she took an audition for drama school to be with her friends. It landed her a place at LAMDA, where she studied from 1988-1991. After graduating she set up her own theatre company, Arts Threshold, with a group of friends in Paddington, taking time out for TV roles in The Bill, the Catherine Cookson drama The Dwelling Place, a care home worker in Victoria Wood's comedy film Pat and Margaret and, just prior to Coronation Street, as an animal rights protestor in Dalziel & Pascoe. She was spotted by the casting crew for "Coronation Street" whilst playing in "Much Ado About Nothing" in the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester, playing the dual roles of a maid and a night watchman!
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BODY OF WORK
Julie Hesmondhalgh's Filmography
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Operation Magpie
as Carol Galloway
Help
The Outing
as Nellie
No Poster
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street
as Herself
The National Television Awards Celebrate 25 Years
as Self
Pond Life
as Muirel Panks
Peterloo
as Female Reformer
I Told My Mum I Was Going On An RE Trip
as Herself (Introduced By)
Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied
as Penny (segment "Closets")
Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster
Closets
as Penny
La Couchette
as Kath
East Street
as Hayley Cropper
Coronation Street: Romanian Holiday
as Hayley Cropper
The Best of So Graham Norton
as Self (archive footage)
Pat and Margaret
as Helper in Old Age Home
What Would Julie Do?
as Julie